[patch] Shortcut schemes for any KDE application (specifically for KDevelop, plugins and Kate Part)

[Alexander Dymo]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008 01:28:11 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> a) Creating a new scheme, changing two shortcuts. Then switching back to
> Default and again to the new scheme the dialog is empty and apparently
> thats also what the scheme file stores as cancelling and re-opening the
> dialog doesn't bring up any shortcuts

> b) cancel doesn't undo a scheme change, i.e. choosing a different scheme
> from the combobox and then cancelling should revert back to the
> previously selected scheme
Agree. But there's one more alternative - we can have separate scheme 
selection dialog where stuff like this will be easier to implement. 

The way shortcut dialog works now, I think we can ask the user if he wants to 
save or cancel his shortcut changes when changing the scheme. Right now I 
silently cancel the changes. Without save/cancel on scheme change it's quite 
hard to implement scheme selector inside the dialog.

> c) the "export to file" doesn't do anything for me
Yep, I haven't implemented it :)

> d) what does the "save these shortcuts as default for this theme" thing
> do? Doesn't it automatically store any changes to the shortcuts editor
> in the scheme? IMHO it should
Currently scheme can live in:
- <guiclientname><schemename>shortcuts.rc files (either global or local)
- local <guiclientname>ui.rc file (user settings)

When the user creates the scheme and assigns shortcuts, they are saved to the 
usual user settings config file (<guiclientname>ui.rc) in a dedicated xml 
element like:
 <ActionProperties scheme="emacs" >
  <Action shortcut="Ctrl+X,K" name="file_close" />
 </ActionProperties>

This "save as default" menu moves the contents from user settings file to the 
local scheme settings file <guiclientname><schemename>shortcuts.rc.

I'm not sure this is needed at all, but at least until I implement "export" 
feature, this stuff is the only way to exchange schemes... Yeah, I 
think "export" should be enough...

> e) The combobox is empty initially, shouldn't it have the "Default"
> entry? (or is this because I removed the existing scheme files and
> restarted kate? I didn't find any other place to change back)

Hmm, how did you get that? You should have seen the "Default"... I'll try to 
reproduce this in the evening.